But there's hope after all. It seems that Night Mode is still hidden in the System UI Tuner, and all you need is an adb command to unleash it. The discovery was made by Vishnu Rajeevan and developer Michael Evans wrote a small app to make use of it for those of us who don't want to mess with adb.

The app is simple. When you launch it the first time, you might see a message telling you to enable System UI Tuner if you haven't already (by long-tapping the Settings gear in the notification shade). After you do, the app only shows one button: Enable Night Mode. Tap it and you'll be taken to System UI Tuner where the Night Mode toggle is there along with the options to change the screen's tint and brightness. You'll also get back the Quick Settings tile for Night Mode.

Here's a video made by Michael to demonstrate the setup process:

So far, the app seems to have done its job on my Nexus 5X. The tile is back and sticks after a reboot. I can tap it to enable Night Mode manually, or wait for nighttime for it to switch automatically. Other users however are facing a couple of issues with the tile not showing up at all or disappearing when you quit the app.

It's also worth noting that since this feature has been hidden from the users, it might also disappear in the maintenance releases of Nougat, or it might not be stable enough and could cause problems. Night Mode Enabler is free and doesn't require root, so you can just grab it and give it a go to see if it works on your device or not.

Comments

Official Stock Android 7.0 Nougat Night Mode IS STILL there!
It's a tile in the quick settings that redirect you to the System UI Tuner.
It is still there WITHOUT any app or mod needed!

Carson S.

How I don't see it without installing this app

Plombir

It's not for those who did a clean install.

Felix

Are you sure?
Only because I updated from Dev Preview 5?
Hm, then I won't do a clean flash now - thanks!!

Randroid

It sounds like it's there for people who upgrade from the preview build, but not from a clean install. Also, maybe only for people who actually enabled the tile in a preview build. So a small portion of people who will be running the final build.

Felix

Yeah, seems you're all right.
My fault..

Rekcus

I'm not sure if I misunderstand something. But I do still have night mode even after the final OTA (did run the Beta Preview before).

Luxferro

Same here

Rekcus

the automatic setting, to switch screen mode, is still working poorly (read: not at all). At least on my phone.

Rekcus

Actually, maybe not, it had been switched off since the OTA. Will try it again.

Woodrowe Bones

I was playing around with that. If you go into the Night Mode settings the radio button on the very top is set to the "Off" position even though the Auto feature is on. If you turn it on and then go out and back in it will be off again. I tested it by changing my phones time to 10:40pm and nothing happened. I went back into Night Mode settings and sure enough the top radio button was "Off" again. While my phone was set to 10:40pm I turned the Auto feature off and then back on again. In doing so it also changed the top button to the On position as well and my screen went into Night Mode. I then tested by changing my time to the morning and then back again and it seems to be working automatically now

EDIT: I should mention that I was on dev preview and did the OTA to Official Nougat

Rekcus

thanks! will try that.

Malhaar Kale

Same with me. I guess it stayed for those who had enabled it before final version rolled out.

Plombir

Yes, if you did an OTA. It's gone if you did a clean install.

hoosiercub88

I did an OTA and it's gone.

TriguyRN

You have to have done the OTA after already running a version with night mode, aka, DP1 and DP2.

Does not work on my 6P after clean install - app starts, UI settings page opens (night mode), but I even if I enable it, the screen does not get red-ish and the quick tile does not appear. Even not after a reboot.

Firelight

Not working on my 5X. Getting auto-disabling when I leave the app.

Steven Libretti

As stated below, toggle it a few times until it works

Firelight

Tried that. Zip. Zero. Nada. Nope. No Go.

JC

Everybody panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Firelight

D'oh! What else did you expect?

Steven Libretti

not sure. worked for me after a reboot and then toggling a number of times

JC

If it didn't work for you then it MUST be broken.

Firelight

Well, of course!

Lutanica

The same thing happened to me. It didn't work on my nexus 6p until I accidentally clicked on the "On" instead of the green slider. Click on the text "On", it will work.

ktwombley

I'm on a nexus 6 (not P) on the final dev build, installed from scratch the other day in hopes I'd get the update to 7.0 (not yet). This worked for me.

After trying all of the enable/disable several times, messing with the toggle tiles to make sure there's room, etc. I finally went in and tried tapping on the text "On" instead of the toggle, even though it sounded like a silly suggestion.

Worked as promised!

nico

Thanks for that, worked for me too. Now tile is there, persistent through reboots and everything.

I'm on a 5X w/ 7.0 (no Night Mode) and have noticed Twilight flickering off for a second after some interactions in ways it didn't on 6.0.1.

Никита Кабаков

No point at all.
It's flickering because System block certain types of buttons when filters enslaved for security

burkett375

Edit - I'm an idiot.

NavyVeteran

Use Nova Launcher it has Night Mode built in. LOL sheep want another app to do what the best launcher (IMO) for Android does already.

Berkay

There's a theme on cyanogenmod that gives most things a "night mode" pretty much everything that is white is swapped to black, like the play store, settings menu, notification cards, some system apps, etc...

nandre

Now if only they could do this for the direct reply on the lockscreen (without unlocking) feature that I believe is hidden in the same way...

boktai1000

It didn't seem to work for me - I forced the Nougat update from the latest Marshmallow version at the time of release (August 5th) on my Nexus 5X, no preview builds installed between. Just doesn't show up in my notification tray in edit - not seeing it.

Francois Roy

Be stubborn. It didn't work for me, but after a dozen tries or so, it finally appeared.

Lutanica

Funniest thing.. The same thing happened to me. It didn't work on my nexus 6p until I accidentally clicked on the "On" instead of the green slider. Click on the text "On", it will work.

boktai1000

I did get it to work after playing around with it, but it's a little janky and figgity as you described. Like I'm unsure if these settings will hold after having to do what I do to get it to work lol.

paulmike3

You da real MVP! Same for me (actually, can click anywhere in the bar to the left of the toggle).

Alex

Guys, what is the reason to use invert colors?

Никита Кабаков

Fun

Alex

Thanks, bud.

Eumelanin Knight

Lol
It's used to increase visibility.

Gerjannn

One way to use it is for amoled screens which stay on longer. Amoled has a much higher change of burn-in, inverting colors will fix this most of the times.

Cat Astrophy

It didn't make it to final release because typically people aren't fans of piss all over their screen.

efendiroshi

i hope HTC will allow to activate ui tuner in Nougat

Mike Evans

Dev here! Thanks for the shout out :)

nico

Not sure if this is the best forum for feedback, but the tip from Lutanica below, where you press the word "On" rather than the toggle itself, enables the Night Mode AND create the tile, seem to be a bug in your app!?!
Anyways; Thanks for creating this app and making it happen!

ekngee

auto location / time does not seem to be working. i turned it on, screen dimmed, and throughout the day it remained dimmed.

David Anderton

Ffs Google, the one feature I want you have disabled.

Mathew Michel

Works for mine!! Wooo! Now I just need dark theme in settings...

billykent1972

it took almost 4 hours for the toggle to show up but it worked great last night, thanks!

JohnP

For anyone who thinks it isn't working, note that if you already had nine icons on your quick settings panel the nightmode icon appears on a second page that you can swipe right to get to. I hit the "On" word (not the toggle) a few times to see it working, but then couldn't find the quick settings tile without a bit of snooping.

Kindle

Night mode originally appeared in Froyo, (darkened apps, not the tint). It seems it only worked when a device was in 'car mode' or 'desk mode'.